Youth Homelessness: Slow, Relational Work
In Kevin Nye’s Grace Can Lead Us Home: A Christian Call to End Homelessness he states, “It is important as Christians to recognize that our call is to engage and dismantle systemic injustices, because they are unjust, not because they inconvenience us and cause us to...
Immigration, Housing Justice, and the Christian Duty
May witnessed the end of Title 42. This was an immigration policy enacted under the Trump administration and continued under the Biden administration and its job was to essentially shut down the US-Mexico border so that migrants could not cross during the pandemic....
An Act of Resistance
A few months ago, Ivy and I decided to create a BFJN podcast. There were a lot of reasons why this format really fit with the mission and vision of BFJN, where we were as an organization and where we hoped to be – we talk about that some in the first podcast so go...
Living Justly: Education and Action
What does it mean to live justly? What Christians are called to is active justice. Though following the life and work of our ultimate model and savior, Jesus, we can start to understand how to live out this calling. Jesus sought justice for the poor, orphaned, and...
What does Climate Change have to do with Housing Justice?
In a previous blog, I touched on the intersectionality of housing justice. One of the areas that was mentioned was climate change. In this blog, I will be expanding on this intersection. Climate displacement presents an immediate challenge to housing justice. Extreme...
Loving our neighbor in the midst of gun violence
Since the Nashville school shooting which left 6 victims dead, we have had 7 mass shootings in the US. A mass shooting is generally defined as an event where 3 or more people are shot in one incident (excluding the perpetrator) at one location at roughly the same...
Learning from Assisi
In a world with seemingly endless distractions and modern “conveniences” that make us constantly accessible to friends, our jobs and even strangers there is a danger in romanticizing the faith and practices of those who lived in other times and places which appear to...
The Intersectionality of Housing Justice: Race, Climate, and Disability
For the first half of the year, BFJN has decided to dedicate its focus to the issue of housing justice. While we have touched on it before in “Uncomfortable Conversations” and blog posts, we now have the opportunity to explore the issue in more detail. In our recent...
Empowering Our Women
Last semester at Gordon College, I had the privilege of taking Dr. Ruth Melkonian-Hoover’s women and politics class. During this class, we discussed issues of contemporary politics, women’s suffrage in the United States, and learned of the history of women’s movements...
My kingdom go
I have recently been reading Richard Rohr for a Christian Simplicity class I am in. What a blessing and privilege to “have to” read so many insightful, provocative, wise Christian thinkers! There is so much in Rohr’s Eager to Love that I have found challenging and...